Product Description: First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation...read more

Product Description: First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists. As such it filled a void in the existing literature which seldom covered programming with much depth and provides technical aids to guide designers...read more

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Product Description: School Design Henry Sanoff Educators often overlook the positive impact of changing the environment of the school itself when considering how to improve the quality of education. School Design shows how to create more effective schools through a design process that involves teachers, students, parents, administrators, and architects...read more

Product Description: This title deals with a wide range of issues and techniques relating to our understanding of the relationship between people and their physical surroundings. It presents and analyzes visual research and planning methods, including environmental measurement, imageability, environmental mapping, visual notation, and environmental simulation using computers...read more

Product Description: Why spend funds unnecessarily when you could easily construct your own unique, safe, and creative play area? POP provides all the needed information for building your own neighborhood or child care center playground. Find new ideas for incorporating learning areas and educational facilities into your site...read more

Product Description: Now you can utilize the space and facilities you already have to design an area that will make your school or day care center efficient, pleasant, safe, and stress free. Organizational diagrams, playground planning, spatial layouts equipment, psychological research, and activity analysis are included in order to help child care providers recognize the potential of each activity area...read more